Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 120
But let's see if you have still got your flower."
Who acts: you, 's · What happens: let, see, get · To what, where: 's, flower
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 's), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 let | cc |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 got | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 got | advmod |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 see | ccomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 flower | nmod:poss |
| 11 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | 's not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | get a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | you | your flower | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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